Arctic Vacation Packages
One Day Summer Tours

Featuring tour packages and custom itinerary planning for Alaska adventure vacations. Tours are designed for the independent travelers, families, or small groups.

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Tour A Day in Kotzebue   

Day 1

You'll depart Anchorage in the morning.

  • Upon arrival, your guide will give you an orientation and outline of your visit to Kotzebue.
  • The city tour will start with a visit to an Inupiat Cultural Camp, where village youth and elders will explain and demonstrate various aspects of the Inupiat culture and lifestyle.
     
  • Learn how animal hides are skinned and tanned to make clothing such as mukluks and parkas.
     
  • The city tour will continue. Back in town you will have time to browse in search of local native crafts & treasures.
  • Explore the remarkable structure and life of the tundra during a guided tundra walk.
  • Lunch will be on your own at the Nullagvik Hotel. You may have some extra time to explore Kotzebue.
  • One of the major highlights of any Kotzebue visit is the NANA Museum of the Arctic. Here, a show includes a multi-media presentation about Arctic wildlife, an Eskimo culture slide show, dancing and a blanket toss demonstration.
     
  • Say goodbye to Kotzebue.  Depart in the evening for your return to Anchorage.

Price: $410.00 per person based on double occupancy

Tour A Day in Nome

Day 1

You'll depart in the morning from Anchorage

  • Upon arrival in Nome, your guide will give a brief orientation and outline of your visit to Nome and how the gold rush shaped this frontier town.
  • Lunch will be on your own.

On the Nome tour, you will learn about the exciting history of this gold rush town.

  • Visit a dog musher's camp, where you will see sled dog teams in action and learn about the training and care of dog teams.
     
  • The city tour will continue with some time in Nome to browse in local shops for native crafts and treasures.
     
  • Visit Little Creek Mining Station, where you can pan for your own gold and receive a souvenir miniature gold pan.
     
  • Dinner will be on your own.
     
  • Say goodbye to the Arctic as you depart for your return to Anchorage.

Price: $395.00  - per person based on double occupancy

Tour  Barrow - A Day at the Top

Day 1

You'll depart in the morning from Fairbanks.

  • You may see snowy owls, eider ducks and others of the 230 bird species which summer here.
     
  • Touch the Arctic Ocean. Walk on tundra and permafrost.
     
  • Stand in a whale bone arch and inside the skeletal jaws of a bowhead whale on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
     
  • Learn about the original village site mounds, which have been dated to 1200 A.D.
     
  • See where the Inupiat Eskimos have historically conducted whaling festivals.
     
  • Travel to the northern-most point in North America accessible by road.
     
  • Back to Barrow for lunch on your own.
     
  • Experience and take part in traditional Inupiat dancing and see other demonstrations including a blanket toss. Time to shop for local arts and crafts will follow at the new Inupiat Heritage Center and Museum.
     
  • Say goodbye to Barrow and transfer to the airport for an evening departure bound for Fairbanks.

Price: $435.00  - per person based on double occupancy

Prices, tour dates, and taxes are subject to change without notice.
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